the universal embraceenveloping all pigmentthat absorbs the lightand reflects nothingthis be the darkness the unknowablethe shadow withinan echo of beingthat never returnsthis toobe the darkness where fear is goneas blankas a mirrorbefore the vast emptinessof space when ego and pneumacoalescecollapsing the chaospermeating all meaningas the ether of old i and i continuesomehowall that isyet never [...]
the rally was relatively smallnot like beforewhen their god-kingpersonallystood before themin all his glory yet these few thousand that remainedthe orcs that had failedto diethey gathered instinctivelystrutting and shoutingas they faithfully waitedfor his blessed presence “therei see him there”one bellowed“it’s the king” and the mob went wild the screen before them flickeredas a dark and [...]
a bit scary nowto realizethat these daysthe so-called mid-life crisisseems to happenaround the age of thirty the unforeseeable dangersof a new digital frontierthe boomers not living as longas their parentswho broke the worldtrying to save it history may not repeat itselfexactlybut the past does echo we freed our mindsbut polluted our bodiesand now our kidsare [...]
one would thinkthis lesson was learned by nowbut shame stands alone as guilt and accountabilitygalavant and gloatunquestionablein their unlimitedand fully licensed lies and unmitigated gall the agenda is clearan unprecedented transformationis near and yet the power stillperniciously resists the willa paradoxinherent in this struggle letting gois no longeran option since last timemay have beenjust that [...]
and as the people finally sawwhat the mad king had donethe murmursturned to weepingand wailingand gnashing of teeth they went back to their homesand gathered togetherevery pitchfork and axefrom every communitythroughout the landand with torches burning the people brought their rageto the golden castleprepared to diethey knew they were no matchfor the king’s great mobbut [...]
descendingwith supreme intentionalitylegs and weaponized abdomenhang in calm readinessthe greatest position of power yet all those eyesconfoundedby a single threadone leg is caughtand that unseen threat is realized the intense struggletime is of the essenceas imminent deathlies in waitfor the apparently inevitable capture yet liberation is herein the random formof human egoan attempt to hold [...]
the whisperof countless deadand witheredleaves littleto the imagination parched brancheslike ancient bonesdug up and scatteredfrom their long pilferedand forgotten tombs they lie stackedlike bodieswaitingfor that final corporeal actthe return to soil too dry for a firei muse in my privilegeas unknown gallonssprinkle and sprayupon the blessed ones if it would just rainbut then the mind [...]
waves of uncertaintyflow through melike an indecipherable tomeas random thoughtsease into existenceincorruptibleunstoppableit’s here i sit alone reflexively i stirrthe slightest little groandisturbed from slumberjust a momentas silence makes its homethen on through the dinthat speaks truth thereinand still i am alone the razor’s edge slices cleanbut not so preciseas to bifurcate or gleanthe prescient from [...]
between the soft and mushymesmerizing mind mashand a gabazillion thornsstabbing at every sensible synapseyou sit thereamong the monsterssmiling you got your pilebut not too much to notice ehno worries mateno one is coming for youthe target isn’t on your backjust yet the false equivalencecognitive dissonanceflow freely from you nowrivers of liesmixed with painful trutha sad [...]
can this be the new normalthat now lying to oneselfis simply the only wayto function at allnever mind to thrivein a society where the grifthas become blood sport just the beginningdon’t you supposeof a long and painful reckoningthose damnable chickensreally did come homeand they’ve shat all overthis rotted old roost seems simply for sanity sakewe [...]